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Software Sustainment: Challenges and Solutions

Dr Kate Gill

Software Sustainment Team Lead,

F-35 Joint Project Office, DC

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F-35 Multi-Mission Capability

Critical to US and Allied Air Dominance for the Next 50 Years

+ + Maneuver at Will Throughout Battlespace Provides Superb Battlespace Awareness Makes Everyone in Battlespace Smarter

Survivable Against World’s Most Sophisticated Threats Now and in the Future

• Stealth ◦ Ability to go undetected

Destroy Targets Deep in

Enemy Territory

Protect Ground Troops

Engaged in Combat

“Knock Down the Door” for

Other Platforms

Clear the Skies of Enemy Aircraft

Strategic Attack Close Air Support Suppression/Destruction of

Enemy Air Defenses

Air Superiority

• Sensor Fusion ◦ Combine many sources of info

• Interoperability ◦ Pass vital information and data to all

US legacy platforms

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F-35 Weapon System Overview F-35A

Air Force - 1763

F-35B Marine Corps - 353

F-35C Navy - 273 & Marine Corps - 67

Internal Gun Boom Refueling

1 Program / 3 Variants / 14 Customers / 3,197 Aircraft

Big, Complicated Program with Significant Allied Participation

Stronger

Gear & Tailhook

Wingfold & Ailerons

Larger Wing &

Tail Area

Basket Refueling

Centerline Gun Pod

3-Bearing Swivel Nozzle

Lift Fan

Roll Posts

Basket Refueling

F-35 Program More than Just the Aircraft

Conventional Take-off & Landing Short Take-off Vertical Landing Aircraft Carrier Variant

United Kingdom - 138 Italy Air Force - 60

The Netherlands - 37

Norway - 52 Turkey - 100 Canada - 65 Australia - 100 Denmark - 27

Italy - 30 Israel - 50

Korea - 40 Japan - 42

Air Vehicle

Operational

Flight Program

JSF

Reprogram-

ming

Enterprise

Mission

Data File

Autonomic

Logistics

Information

System

Full Mission

Simulators Threat

Database Off-board

Mission

Support

Centerline Gun Pod

Operational

Flight Program

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The F-35 Air System

…More than Just the Aircraft

Air Vehicle

Autonomic

Logistics

Information System

JSF Reprogramming

Enterprise

Full Mission

Simulators

Operational Flight

Program

Mission

Data File

Off-Board

Mission

Support

Threat

Database

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F-35 Sustainment Challenges

• F-35 Global Sustainment Solution is designed to support the requirements

of all Participants and FMS

◦ 3 US Services

◦ 8 Partner Nations

◦ A Growing Number of Foreign Military Sales Customers

• Must deliver:

◦ Most cost-effective system for all

◦ Best Value for all Participants

• Must recognize and address any specific requirements from individual

services and attribute costs accordingly

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Scope of F-35 Software Sustainment

Autonomic

Logistics

Information

System

Off Board Mission Support

Reprogramming

Labs (x4) Weapons

Prognostic Health

Management System

Mx and Aircrew

Trainers

Avionics

On Board SW

Propulsion

Across Development,

Production, and Sustainment

Software Labs

Modeling &

Simulation

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F-35 Sustainment Solutions

• F-35 Global Support Solution (GSS) is designed to support the

requirements of all Participants and FMS

The F-35 Global Support Solution will deliver sustainment through life with the support of the

US Services, Depots, Global Industry and the associated supply chain network.

The F-35 Program is more than just the aircraft and successful sustainment needs to

address ALL the on-board and off-board needs.

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Across Three Regions

North America Europe Pacific

Global Support Solution

Sustainment Posture

OO-ALC OC-ALC

FRC-SW FRC-SE

WR-ALC

US Government CORE Workload Assigned in Sep 2008

Airframe Assignments

Made Dec 2014

Italy Airframe (F-35A/B)

Japan Airframe (F-35A)

F-35A: Nagoya

F-35B: Iwakuni

Australia Airframe (F-35A)

FRC-E Airframe (F-35B)

OO-ALC Airframe (F-35A/B/C)

Component Assignments

Initial 65 in 2016, RFI 2017

OO-ALC Components

WR-ALC Components

OC-ALC Components

FRC-SW Components

FRC-SE Components

FRC-E Components

Europe Region Component

Initial: (2022-2026) UK: RTC A, B1, B2, C, E, F, H, X, S(2026)

NLD: RTC G, L

Asian Pacific Region Component

Initial: (2026-2030) AUS: RTC A, B1, B2, C, E, F, G, H, L, S(2022)

KOR: RTC X

Turkey Engine

Engine Assignments

Made Dec 2014

Australia Engine

Netherlands Engine

Norway Engine

Japan Engine

OC-ALC Engine

FRC-E Lift System

Supply Warehouse Assignments

made in 2017

Europe Warehouse

Pacific Warehouse

North America Warehouse

Europe SE / ALIS / Training Devices

Pacific SE / ALIS / Training Devices

SE/ALIS/Training Device Assignments

To be made 2018

Japan FACO Italy FACO

Production/FACO

Program of Record

US F-35 Production

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F-35 Global Support Solution (GSS)

• SE

• Spares

• Training

• Engineering

Legacy

USAF Country X Country Y

F-35 GSS Model

Contracting for Things

• Buy:

o Replacement of 12 Rotors

o 30 Repair Inductions

o Train 20 engine techs

Contracting for Outcomes

Bend the curve using:

- Performance-based contracting

- OEM Investments

- Should Cost

O&S Cost

Separate Enterprises

• SE

• Spares

• Training

• Engineering

• SE

• Spares

• Training

• Engineering

Traditional Cost Growth

Common, Tailored Enterprise

Buy Required outcomes with incentives:

o Strategic Performance Measures; e.g., Safety

o Key Performance Indicators: Air Vehicle Availability (AVA), Full Mission

Capability (FMC), Mission Effectiveness (ME), Cost

o Critical Metrics: MMH/FH, Canns, System Health Indicators

Performance Framework

Sustainment Strategy:

• Design, develop, deliver and sustain a single,

integrated, Global Support Solution (GSS);

• Tailor GSS to meet warfighter-defined and

PSM-informed readiness and cost objectives;

• Maintain life cycle focus, including the

reduction of costs;

• Create a mutually-beneficial GSS enterprise

that – with relevant metrics and incentives –

operates, manages, and supports the global

system; and

• Leverage global resource base

Deliver Warfighter performance

capability within resource constraints

Acquisition

Strategy

30% O&S

Cost Reduction

Common Pool: SE

Spares

Training

Engineering

3 US Services 8 Int’l Participants 3 FMS Cases

Unique Rqmts: Afloat Spares

Deployable Spares

Country-Specific (ISR, etc.)

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Questions

Dr Kate Gill

F35 Joint Project Office, Crystal City

katherine.gill.uk@jsf.mil

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Delivering the F-35

to the Warfighter